FMA 108

[ketita]

Naatz said that I've invested so much in FMA over the years, I'd probably not like the ending, no matter what happened.

Fuck "no matter what happened". This isn't fair. It isn't.

Comments

[yue_blanche]

I saw the last chapter and really am wondered about your unhappyness with this chapter. after all they got their happy end aren´t they?

[ketita]

The alchemy thing was completely pointless and unnecessary, and the fact that Hohenheim died like a page later made it even worse.

[lois4dead4]

I was also pretty dissapointed by the trading alchemy thing... SURELY he would have come up with that in all the years of research? Just seemed like an easy of tying everything up.

[ketita]

yeah :\ it just didn't seem to serve any real purpose, and kind of undermines a whole lot of who he is, you know? It felt kind of tacked on, to me... and like I said, unnecessary. Doesn't demand great thought or anything.

[sayhello]

I have to agree with you, it seemed a bit pat. If that's "all it took", wouldn't Ed have done that years ago? :-p I also agree HoHo dying right afterwards kind of made the sacrifice pretty meaningless. I guess with the whole roof thing, Arakawa is saying he adapted & got on all right without his alchemy. But it has to be akin to giving up his arm... It's such a part of him.

The end felt rushed to me. OK, Big Bad gone, quick, tie up all the lose ends before the end of the chapter! I am SO hoping people fanfic the hell out of this ending (AU or otherwise) because I'm just not satisfied. I want MORE, and I want it to make more sense...

Hewene

[ketita]

I think that another thing that bothered me was how, when they got right down to it, Ed was the only one who had to lose something. As many complaints as I have with the ending of the first anime, at least there they did one thing right. They played up how much Ed and Al were willing to sacrifice for each other, and when it came right down to it, they both ended up a bit lost.
We didn't get that here. Al got everything, it seems like nearly EVERYBODY got everything, except for Ed, who had to make a sacrifice. And like you said, I just couldn't buy how pat it was.
Also, the fact that it ended with them splitting up like that bothered me a bit, too. Of course it's not healthy for them to be as codependent as they were in the first anime, but it leavs me a bit unsatisfied.

And like you said, seriously. Why didn't Ed to it all earlier, ffs?

[sayhello]

I'm just really, REALLY hoping for some good fanfic to help resolve all this. Arakawa's ending did not leave me satisfied...

[ketita]

Yeah, I hope so too. Sadly, right now I doubt I'll be much good for writing fix-it-fic. I'm too unhappy about it XD